They will not be allowed into the actual staff board unless they're staff.
What was being heavily debated over was if they'd get their own board; which was pretty much unneeded in that way, since it had already been made when this topic was made.
However, as I have mentioned elsewhere; I do not agree that the reporters should have to move their stories from one board to another just to get it into the news, since in that time, if we had been almost getting a news story out first, we may lose that edge and get it out later than other sites.
UHM.. It takes less than 10 seconds to move a post...
